1997 Davis Cup Asia/Oceania Zone Group III

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The Group III tournament was held March 26 – 30, in Doha, Qatar, on outdoor hard courts. The eight teams were divided into two round-robin pools. The top two teams from each pool advanced to a promotion pool, while the bottom two were placed in a relegation pool. In contrast to earlier (and later) practice, the promotion and relegation pools took the form of play-off brackets, instead of using round-robin play.

Pool A

	Advanced to Promotion Round
	Assigned to Relegation Round

Team	Pld	W	L	MF	MA
Pacific Oceania	3	2	1	5	4
Qatar	3	2	1	5	4
Sri Lanka	3	1	2	5	4
Malaysia	3	1	2	3	6

Results of Individual Ties

Date	Winning Team	Score
March 26	Pacific Oceania	2-1	Sri Lanka
March 26	Qatar	2-1	Malaysia
March 27	Qatar	2-1	Sri Lanka
March 27	Malaysia	2-1	Pacific Oceania
March 28	Pacific Oceania	2-1	Qatar
March 28	Sri Lanka	3-0	Malaysia

Pool B

	Advanced to Promotion Round
	Assigned to Relegation Round

Team	Pld	W	L	MF	MA
Kazakhstan	3	3	0	7	2
Kuwait	3	2	1	6	3
Bahrain	3	1	2	4	5
Bangladesh	3	0	3	1	8

Results of Individual Ties

Date	Winning Team	Score
March 26	Kazakhstan	2-1	Bahrain
March 26	Kuwait	3-0	Bangladesh
March 27	Kazakhstan	3-0	Bangladesh
March 27	Kuwait	2-1	Bahrain
March 28	Kazakhstan	2-1	Kuwait
March 28	Bahrain	2-1	Bangladesh

1st-4th Playoff

	Third place					Final
						S	Pacific Oceania	1
							Qatar	2
	S	Pacific Oceania	2
		Kuwait	1

Pacific Oceania and Qatar both promoted to Group II for 1998.

5th-8th Playoff

	Third place					Final
						S	Sri Lanka	0
							Malaysia	3
	S	Sri Lanka	2
		Bangladesh	1

Bangladesh and Bahrain both relegated to Group IV for 1998.

See also

1997 Davis Cup
1997 Davis Cup Americas Zone	1997 Davis Cup Asia/Oceania Zone	1997 Davis Cup Europe/Africa Zone
← 1996 Asia/Oceania Zone Group III	↑ 1997 Asia/Oceania Zone Group II	1998 Asia/Oceania Zone Group III →
	1997 Asia/Oceania Zone Group IV ↓